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Capacity Building Grants now openThe Rio Tinto Children's Diabetes Centre; a Breakthrough T1D Centre of Excellence is excited to offer Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) researchers and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students affiliated with the Global CoE, the opportunity to apply for sponsorship for training or capacity building related activities.
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Sports star awardWe are proud to have so many very talented children and youth in our T1D community.
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School holiday campDuring the recent school holidays, the Diabetes WA and Perth Children’s Hospital again ran a school holiday camp for kids living with type 1 diabetes.
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Supporting Families Project UpdateIn early 2024, Dr Aveni Haynes and her team were awarded Telethon Trust funding for their project Supporting Families.
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National Community and Consumer Involvement Committee UpdateNational committee members are a really important part of our research projects. Find out what they have been working on.
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A Long-Term Evaluation of Facebook for Recruitment and Retention in the ENDIA Type 1 Diabetes Pregnancy-Birth Cohort StudyThe Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA) study is an Australia-wide pregnancy-birth cohort study following children who have a first-degree relative with type 1 diabetes (ACTRN1261300794707). A dedicated ENDIA Facebook page was established in 2013 with the aim of enhancing recruitment and supporting participant retention through dissemination of study information.
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Mental Health During Late Pregnancy and Postpartum in Mothers With and Without Type 1 Diabetes: The ENDIA StudyPregnancy and type 1 diabetes are each associated with increased anxiety and depression, but the combined impact on well-being is unresolved. We compared the mental health of women with and without type 1 diabetes during pregnancy and postpartum and examined the relationship between mental health and glycemic control.
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Suboptimal glycemic control in adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes from 2011 to 2020 across Australia and New Zealand: Data from the Australasian Diabetes Data Network registryCompeting challenges in adolescence and young adulthood can distract from optimal type 1 diabetes (T1D) self-management, and increase risks of premature morbidity and mortality. There are limited data mapping the glycemic control of people with T1D in this age group, across Australasia.
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Telethon grant supporting families navigating early-stage type 1 diabetesThanks to the generous support of West Australians, new funding from Channel 7’s Telethon Trust will help develop a much-needed clinical pathway to support families with kids who have early-stage type 1 diabetes (T1D).
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NovoRapid urgent product defect alertWe have been advised by Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of NovoRapid, that some circulating Novorapid cartridges may have small circular non-penetrating cracks on the outer surface around 4–6 mm below the ''shoulder'' of the glass cartridge. These